The stunning ‘Death Railway’ train journey drawing in dark tourists

Dark travelers travel from all over the world to witness the breathtaking ‘Death Railway’ train excursion.

UNIQUE: In addition to being stunning, the trek serves as a potent tourist attraction of the area’s turbulent past.

Tourists from all over the world are being drawn to the breathtaking ‘Death Railway’ train excursion.

Tourists from all over the world are drawn to Kanchanaburi, Thailand’s Death Railway because of its past and stunning scenery.

Due to the hundreds of lives lost during construction, the railway, which was first constructed during World War II by Allied prisoners of war.

Death Railway

The Burma Railway, sometimes referred to as the Thai-Burma Railway, the Siam-Burma Railway, or the Death Railway, is a 415-kilometer railroad.

Thailand. In order to supply men and weaponry for the Burma campaign of World War II, it was constructed between 1940 and 1943 using South East Asian citizens who had been kidnapped and put to labor by the Japanese, along with a smaller number of captured Allied soldiers. It finished the rail connection between Rangoon, Burma, and Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand-Burma-Link-Railway, or Tai–Men Rensetsu Tetsudō (泰䷬怣接鉄こ), was the name that the Japanese government employed.

Around 12,000 Allied soldiers and over 90,000 civilians perished in the construction of the Death Railway.

At least 250,000 forced laborers from Southeast Asia. Tamils, Malays, and a smaller number of Chinese citizens from Malaya worked on the Thai side of the railway.

After October 1943, the majority of these civilians were sent to “rest camps,” where they stayed until the end of the war to observe the evacuation of the Allied prisoners of war. In 1947, survivors were still residing in the camps. They were British subjects who continued to perish from malnourishment, diarrhea, and malaria.They died in the “rest camps” after surviving the Railway’s experience. The victims in Southeast Asia have not received any reparations or compensation.

Soon after the war, the majority of the railway was demolished. There were still trains operating as far north as Nam Tok, but just the first 130 kilometers.

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